Princess's Casino

[southbayer]

Does anyone know if it's true that the casino uses tokens instead of cash ?

Could you use your sea pass card to buy tokens in the casino ?

thanks

[sandi & fred]

If you buy tokens or chips in the casino and charge it to your cruise card, there is a fee, I think 3% added to the card. We usually take cash or traveler's checks and cash them at the casino to avoid this.

[dbdave]

You can use cash, it is just exchanged for tokens (chips). When you are finished gambling, just exchange your tokens back for cash at the cashier.....if you have any left!

[Toto2Kansas]

Quarter/Dollare machines always have taken tokens. Nickle machines do not.

Yes, there is a 3% service charge when you put cash for the casino on your shipboard account.

[gooch47]

The new Emerald used a system where cash from the machine could be put on your room key and added to or subtracted from (for play) using a keypad and a PIN number. It was a little complicated at first, but much better than cashing out $20 in nickles or whatever!

 

You still paid a fee if you charged money from your account, but if you just put money in a slot and then transferred it to the card, it was a free transaction.

[southbayer]

Thanks for the info, so its basically like Carnival's system, except it uses tokens..... And you can get more tokens by charging it to your onbaord account, got it. I don't care too much about that 3% fee, cause when your losing $100's anyway, it doesn't matter:eek:

[barbarah33]

The Crown Princess also has the system where money can be kept/removed from your cruise card in the casino. I thought it was very convenient.

[canadiansnowbird]

So does the "Star". But, be very careful that you go to the cashier and remove any winnings :rolleyes: or credit balance :rolleyes: on this card before midnight of disembarkation, or it's gone!!! It doesn't get left on your sea card as a credit.

I loved the convenience of this card because if you win anything, all you had to do was download the credit to your card and go to another machine and after you put your PIN number in, you put any amount of credit you want into the next machine. Or at the beginning of the cruise put $100. or $200. on the card and use the amount you have alloted for the week. When that's done, that it. ;)

 

Snowbird

[sueandkent]

The new Emerald used a system where cash from the machine could be put on your room key and added to or subtracted from (for play) using a keypad and a PIN number. It was a little complicated at first, but much better than cashing out $20 in nickles or whatever!

 

You still paid a fee if you charged money from your account, but if you just put money in a slot and then transferred it to the card, it was a free transaction.

 

They had that on the Caribbean Princess when we sailed last fall also. It was handy although I never won anything to help pay down my stateroom account.

[gooch47]

We actually won on the Emerald! I came back with about $1200 more than I left with. And on penny and nickle machines,too, plus one $300 win at the tables!

 

Just to clarify about the tokens, the slots all have ... oh-oh ... what do you call them ??? The things you put paper money into??? Other than the Emerald, they have always paid out in tokens, though.

[captain og]

We're heading off to Southampton to sail the Grand around the British Isles on the 21st (only 10 more days till we leave......WOOHOO!!!!) and I'd LOVE to know if they have this card system in place on the Grand. Anyone know? And what's the poker situation now (not video); do they have more than one table? Are they spreading anything higher than 3-6 or 4-8 limit?

 

I gotta know!!!!!:D